Have you been looking for a job and everywhere you can only find one with a requirement of work experience or academic qualification more than yours?

Even if you belong to the same field of job as the one you wish to apply to and you feel you can justify the job requirements pretty well, you restrain yourself from applying to the job thinking that you are under-qualified for the position, especially when you go through the listed requirements.

Well, this is a commonplace occurrence with many of us so let us find out how our resume can be built in a way that provokes the recruiter to hire us, even if we are not having 3-5 years of work experience as per the job listing and rather have been working for only 2 years.

Let’s see How to get a job where you are under qualified

A Chrono-Functional Resume Format will serve you best

Instead of focusing on your work history and the years you served in each company, try to bring up skills that would emphasize on the skills you have acquired and learnt all this while. The chrono-functional resume format will deal with your accomplishments and will bring your skills in the picture. Though there will be the mention of when you were working with which company and on what job, yet this resume format will highlight what skills and knowledge you have imbibed during your work experience and even otherwise. Following this format would enable the recruiter to know which of your experiences and skills can be used in the company and have a fair idea on what job profile would best suit you.

However, refrain from making your resume fully functional as certain employers look forward to knowing your exact job responsibilities and the tenure for each job. So, making it chrono-functional would be helpful for both you and the recruiter.

Functional Resume

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Students often make mistakes while making career choices and end up regretting their decision later in life. But fret not, if you’re just about to graduate in B.Com and are confused what career to choose then we have found a solution for you.  We got in touch with Professor Aasheerwad Dwivedi who teaches Economics to students of S.R.C.C. (Shriram College of Commerce), Delhi University. He shared with us his insights about available career options and some tips on how to make the right choices.

Excerpts from the interview:

What according to you are the major mistakes students make while making a career choice

A. Generally after graduation students don’t understand what they’re really interested in and they end up doing what everyone else is. Like I will give you an example, according to current market standards, doing MBA isn’t a good career option but still students take it up seeing others, not realizing that they can do something much better and something they’re actually interested in. So the real problem is that students don’t think before making decisions and just follow their peers.

What are the new career options  after B.com?

A. Traditionally C.A. (Chartered Accountancy) is the most popular career option after B.com. But today subjects like Risk Management and Disaster Management are upcoming topics and students with Economics and B.Com background are more preferable in it. But still in India students are reluctant to take up new options and C.A. is the most prevalent choice.

Due to lack of awareness about the current trends, skills & job requirement, many graduate students remain unemployed. What can be done in this regard?

A. Firstly, students should always keep in touch with their seniors and professors especially in their third year when they can get them some career advice from them according to their eligibility and interest. Secondly, on a personal level, I think students in metropolitan cities take up part time jobs or work in BPOs thinking that they will earn money and do a PG or a diploma course on the side but they don’t realize that it isn’t feasible. They get so involved with their work that their main interests get sidelined. So I would say other than reading up on what’s happening and asking seniors for advice, students should have a long-term approach about their career and not short-term. Or else what happens is at a young age they enjoy the high salary but later in future they end up in a bad state.

Which is more important qualification or work experience? Please share your views on the same.

A. Personally I feel qualification is much more important. A qualified person has better chances of working well in future than a person with work experience.

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